Speech of Dr. Arch Barrett, Hon. John M. Spratt, Jr. of South Carolina In the House of Representatives

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Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to enter into the RECORD a speech given by a former staffer of the House Armed Services Committee, Arch Barrett. Arch is one of the most unassuming people I know, but was one of the most remarkable and able staffers I've met during my 20 years on Capitol Hill.

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Arch Barrett's Graduation address was presented to the House of Representatives in two parts. The Hon. John M. Spratt, JR. presented Barretts speech given by Arch Barrett at the Naval Postgraduate School Joint Professional Military Education Course in June, 2003. His speech influenced the passing of the Goldwater-Nichols Act Whenever the Pentagon raised an objection, Arch Barrett was sent over and he'd argue with the naysayers until they ran out of objections and had to relent. It was a virtuoso performance by someone who had mastered the subject matter.

A discussion of the nature of speech is presented, followed by a
review of speech processing to date, with emphasis on the characteristics
of speech which must be retained for intelligibility. Methods of
measuring speech ...

Speech is one of the most inefficient methods of
communication. Therefore, there has been a continuing effort
to devise means to reduce the redundancy, that is, compress
the bandwidth required for speech communication ...

Speech collected through a microphone placed in front of the mouth has been the primary source of data collection for speech recognition. There are only a few speech recognition studies using speech collected from the ...